Seeking change: An NLD sticker being pasted in front of a voter’s home as the party campaigns for the upcoming general election in Yangon. — Reuters
YANGON: Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi called on the international community to help ensure November polls bring “genuine political and governmental change” as campaigning officially kicked off in the former junta-run country.
Some 30 million people will have the chance to vote – many for the first time in their lives – in the elections, the only nationwide polls contested by Suu Kyi’s party in a quarter of a century as the nation emerges from decades of stifling military rule.
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